But the sophomore short-armed it, missing off the front of the rim. And he was happy.

Iowa legend Chris Street, who played for the Hawkeyes in the early 1990s, had made 34 consecutive free throws before he was killed in a car accident on Jan. 19, 1993, in the middle of his junior season. Bohannon wasn’t going to knock Street — whose legacy has lived on in Iowa City since that night in 1993 — out of the record books.

Here is the free throw Jordan Bohannon missed on purpose that would have broken Chris Street's record. And then a minute later, back to the line, you see his homage to Street. He made them both. pic.twitter.com/pv7Q0HOQdm

“That record was not mine to have,” Bohannon said in a Big Ten Network interview after the game. “That record deserves to stay in his name.

“I’ve been really close with his family these past couple years. Getting to know them a lot and just listening to his story, honestly. It’s really got me emotional these past couple games because I’ve known what I wanted to do. Obviously it’s a different time than when I wanted to do it, but that’s something I wanted to do. Like I said, it’s been an honor to get to know his family.”

Bohannon finished with a team-high 25 points in the Hawkeyes’ 77-70 win over the Wildcats. The Marion, Iowa, native is averaging nearly 13 points per game, and shooting 89.7 percent from the charity stripe.

“Christopher would want him to do to the best he could do and stay after it,” Mike told Chad Leistikow of the Des Moines Register. “But that was Jordan’s decision, and if that’s what he wanted to do, then we appreciate it. We certainly in the future want him to get another shot at it.